TELEGRAM TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written on July 4, 1920Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51.

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To be handed to the duty commissar

ZinovievPetrograd

ComradeZinoviev,

Iam sending the
theses[1]tomorrow, Monday. Arrange
for them to be received without any delay. Kobetsky and
Vorovsky must be commissioned to prepare a business-like
criticism of the Norwegian Party and the Swedish Left Party
in time for the
Congress.[2]It is necessary to have
accurate and complete material. With regard to translations
at the Congress itself, the matter must be organised in
advance: all delegates should be seated according to
languages, so that there can be simultaneous immediate
translations for the Germans, French and English. This will
save time. Russian is obviously necessary, for it is clear
that people will insist on session in theatres.

Greetings,Lenin

[1]Thisrefers to “Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Second
Congress of the Communist International” (see present edition, Vol. 
31, pp. 184–201).—Ed.

[2]Thisrefers to theSecond Congress of the Communist International,
which was held from July 19 to August 7, 1920.

Allthe preparatory work for convening the Congress was
directed by Lenin. He wrote the theses on the national and
colonial questions, on the agrarian question, on the fundamental
tasks of the Second Congress of the Communist International, on
the terms of admission into the Communist International, and
the plan of theses on the international and economic situation
(see present edition, Vol. 31, pp. 144–64, 184–201, 206–11, 212;
Vol. 35, pp. 450–51).

Atthe Congress, Lenin delivered a report on the international
situation and the fundamental tasks of the Communist
International, made a speech on the role of the Communist Party,
delivered the report of the Commission on the National and Colonial
Questions, and spoke on the terms of admission into the
Communist International, on parliamentarism, and on affiliation to the
British Labour Party (see present edition, Vol. 31, pp. 215–63).
Lenin’s theses were endorsed as decisions of the Congress.